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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-22
SIGNS OF LUCK
Information for the Supe stItious and of
Interest to Everybody.


Dream Of eggs, sign of money.
Dream OF snakes, sign OF enemies.
II you sing before breakfast you'll cry
before supper.
Dreaming OF muddy or rushing water
brings trouble.
Finding a horseshoe or four leaved
clover brings good luck.
II you cut your nails or sneeze on Sat
urday you do 1t "for evil"
She who takes the last stitch at aquilt-
ing will be the first to marry.
u you cannot maxi up a handsome
bed your husband will have q homely
nose.
If you spill the salt some one will be
"mad " with you unless you put some in
the fire.
Stub your right toe, you are going
where you are wanted; your left, where
you are not wanted.
If the cock crows on the fence, the
weather will be fair; IL on the doorstep,
he will bring company.
Il the first Sunday in the month Is un-
pleasant there will be but one pleasant
Sunday during the month.
II by any chance u mourning hat or
bonnet is placed upon your head you will
need one of your own soon.
If your right ear burns, some one is
praising you; IL your left, your friends
ar raking you over the Goals.
Returning to the house for a moment
after having once started out will bring
bad luck unle s you Sit down.
When, in dropping a fork, 1t strikes
the floor and stands upright, 1t Will
bring gentleman visitor; il a knife, a
lady.
While at the washboard, II the suds
splash and wet the clothes you wear you
will have a drunken husband.
Ii you drop your dishcloth you Will
have company; also if you sweeps a black
mark or il two chairs stand accidentally y
back to back.
If baby sees his face In the glass 1t
will be the death OF him. II his nails
arr cut he will be a thief. II he tumbles
out of bed IL will save his being q fool
Break Il mirror, sign OF death. Death
is also foretold by dog bowling under
. window. hearing a mournful dove, a
strange dove hovering about, or dreaming
OF a white horse.
II you see the new moon through a
glass you will have sorrow as long as
It lasts. II you see it fair in the face
you'll have a fall. Over the left shoul-
der, bad luck; over the right, good luck.
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Better Green than TOO Ripe.

There's hayseed, pa" said Johnny,
as q substantial-looking countryman
came into the cars he other morning.
See here, Johnny" said pa, with
threatening severity. don't you ever let
me hear you call anybody from the COM
try a hayseed. Only Ignorant persons
designate country people by term en-
blematic of entire greenness."
Il didn't know It was wrong, pa" OK
postulated the boy.
my son, your grandparents, even
down TO the ground rung on the family
step-ladder, were from the country,
and"
Country people don't know as much
as city people, do they, par
Certainly they do. Take a city bred
man, put him on a farm among he arti-
cles he has in his daily diet, and he will
ask questions fully as simple and stare
about as badly as a countryman when
he comes to the city, He'll want to
know who churns the apple butter. He
don't know whether potatoes grow on
trees or bushes. and whether apples
grow on stalks or not"
II don't want to be green, anyhow,
pa" persisted Johnny.
Rather green than ripe, my boy,
Always remember that extreme ripe-
ness y the border land to permanent
decay"
And the old man leaned back, having
rubbed In something Johnny would
never forget-fCinctnpati Timee-StaY.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-22
YOUNG MOZART.
Amazing Precocity of the crsss esS1ss
Composer.

At five years of age Mozart began
composing without the slightest guide.
He formed the pieces on the piano,
played them to his father, who then
wrote them down.
1t is strange that he was not e child
when seated at the piano. Nobody
dared address a joke to him or talk
aloud. In letter of his fathers it is
stated that some of his friends, who
saw the child so very serious, predicted
that he would not live long.
Although he willingly studied every
thing his father told him to work at,
music filed his soul from early child
hood to such an extent that when h's
toys had to be taken from one room to
another he insisted on a march being
sung, to the strains of which he walket
In time and in procession with the per-
son who assisted him.
From letter from Court Trumpeter
Apdreas Schactner TO Mozart's sister, I
take the following details. NAV first
be allowed to say that trumpeter then
was not what he may be now, and that
this Mr.. Schsctner was a man not only
of musical but literary culture, who
often lent helping hand with MoZsrt's
hbretti. He writes:
"Once / came home from church
with your father and we found Wolterl
fully engaged with his pen" ("olfsrl
the diminutive of Woifgang means
In German, Just the same as In English,
a small wolff "The child had paper
before him and would not let us sea
what he wrote because IL was not ready.
1t was full Of ink spots, because Le
pushed his quill every time to the Dot
tom of the inkstand. His father at
last took II away from him and found
1t was the manuscript Of a concerto Cor
the piano, and on his remark that 1t was
too difficult, the little boy jumped up
and said, 1T is concerto. Let those
who want to play it study hard, and
he sat down to the instrument and
played it"
Evidence Of his miraculous capacities
was given in his seventh year. A trio
was played, and be begged to be allowed
to play the second fiddle. His father,
knowing that the boy had never had
regular instruction, would not hear of
1t. The boy insisted. So the father
ordered him out of the room.
He then resorted to the infallible
means with which children and women
govern their so called masters, the men
he began to cry. OF course one of the
friends present begged that the child
might be allowed to have his will, and,
TO the utter amaZement of all present,
he sat down and played without fault,
first the second, then the first fiddle,
until 1t was the fathers turn to shed
tears Sf surprise and admiration.
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IN tho Twinkling of an Eye.

The photograph is now as nearly Gin
Simultaneous" as possible. When every
thing is ready, {" Click ~ and the arti-
fetal eyelid has opened and shut.
What has IT seen In that little instant
of time? II anything is In motion, il
has been perceived IN that fragment Of
q second as If motionless.
Men walking along the street are Pic
tured with uplifted feet. A trotting
horse may be caught with all of its
four legs in the air, viewed just at the
very moment when he was clear of the
ground. A man lesping with high
pole may be pictured In mid-air, pre-
cisely IN the position In which he sp-
pears at the highest altitudei Motion
seems rest
But this is not the most wonderful of
Its powers Far beyond the keenness
OF human vision is its range of sight
If the light is good, this sensitive
plate Of glass viii have recorded and
discerned . thousand uplifted faces az
perfectly as the human eve perceives
the features of a single countenance.
Every expression of joy or sorrow,
every peculiarly of dress or attitude,
the leaves of q forest or the grass by the
wsyside, will have been seen and de-
Gneated and retained perfectly in fsr
less than the briefest possible twink-
ling Of . human eve
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a Farmer. View. on Good Breeding.

But now" said the farmer, "this
ere snubbin' buz'ness good mater :
what Goes it all amount to, anyway
What you've ben sayin' makes me think
OF what ! he'd up in Pomfret this sum
mer.
There was some folks come from the
city somewhere to board with neighbor
Watkins, and their little boys they got
to plsyin' with Asy's boys. Ny SON Asy,
he lives down in Old Springfield, an
his little boys come up TO farm II long
with granpa. Come up eyry summer,
they do.
"wal. them Fletcher folks-the name
was Fletcher-went round pooty mid
din promp.' an the iust thing / knew
along came Mr. Fletcher one day when
/ was to work out in the medder. an
SCI he:
80 i don't want my children TO play
no more long with tenn boys o yourn
I'm very partickelar bout Who my chill
dren PILy with, sez he
wal. / couid't help bein' sorter riled
Fletcher. he pitched IN tolabIe brash,
an Asy's boys--them little fellers-wal
they know what belongs to good mum
ners better'n some-wal no matter
bout that.
% But / kinder thought that I'd give
Fletcher little hyste, bein' he come al
Inc 80. an l up an told Iim, sex /
49, I've been farmin' ever sence before
you vas born, an I've he'd a number of
dogs at one time an another, an I've
seen a good many more; an there's
some Cogs that's alwus civil to other
dogs, an willin' to pass the time o. day
with EN-. an be friendly, an there's
others that won't never have nothin' TO
do with nobody, but jest hustle up and
snap an snail at little dogs an run away
from big ones, an I've slwus noticed
this:
"When there's 8 one o them dogs. that's
too good for his neighbors, he's mebbe
this or mebbe that, but there's one
thing he amt. not by any chance; he amt
never a thoroughbred ser I."-{Detroit
Ers.. Press
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-22
Amateur Work.

Our grandmothers made jams and
made them well; but our children paint
jam pots, and paint them badly. That
is the situation in q nutshell. In Older
English times folks either did nothing
or they did something; but nowadays
their lives are Giyen up to siren on id.o-
peSS-to dressing up their lack of ocyu-
patton In the clothes OF industry.
How nice It Is to think that noble
lord, now deign to soil their fingers
With collodion, and make IS great a mess
Of dry plate as the heart could wish;
that noble ladies can be seen. with Wat
eau aprons and gilt hair-pins, sticking
up imitation dadoes in East end school
rooms; that princesses OF the blood con-
descend to exhibit weak lands scapes upon
the walls of public galleries; that IL
one fall down In the rect he can be
picked up and cared for by a member
OF the Ambulance Society; that Cabinet
ministers employ the spare moments
in writing romances or cutting down
oaks tina; our dukes write learne lly on
evolution, an our ears throw OF little
immoral French poe E wi hout perceD-
tiblr diminutiou 4 I cir digG ty.
l sometimes wonder whether the old
days, when an artist or an author was
merely painting fellow T a writ
ing fellow" when people who did not
know or care anyth ng about art or liter
ature we're contented TO be ignorant OF
it; when the WON n were really house
wives in the true sense OF he word, and
the men after their TouEh q. II you
like. rather bruta fiell sports. drank
themselves stolidly ASLEEP after dinner
/ wonder whether thos days were not
really preferable, If only because Of their
greater sincerity.
But anyhow, whether thi- he so or
not he.e the amateur is, and we must
l. Q l.. l. II -,
college Ortev said to al undergraduate
OF AN unpopular tut or: = Remember. sir.
= human Deing;' AID though it is
OF the yer. essence OF the contract that
his work should be partial AID deficient,
il i not cce-sary that IL should be
either aimless, affected or uume8ning.-
ICon, emporary Review.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-07-22
TWO WAYS OF GARDENING.
a Chesrful Jehu and . Moross One
How It Pays To Be Goodnatured.

Coming down on q Fourth Avenue
street car the other morning. we rode on
the platform and found veritable study
In the driver. He was one OF those Jolly
good natured souls that nothing seems
to trouble or put out of temper.
There was wagon on the track that
was being unloaded, and we had to wait
The teamster glared at our driver, as
they always do, as much as to say,
"What yer goin' to do about itf" but
received such a besming smile in return,
with take your time, old boy" that he
finally grinned back and actually hur-
ried up his work a little.
Turning 10 US as we moved on, this
Jolly ar-iriver said:
mo use in iawing these fellows.
They are twice as long unloading II you
do. My plan is 10 take everything good
Datured and ! get along a good deal
better for It. Heign, therew ito a man
on the crossing who didn't observe the
car . Look out for the locomotive when
the bell ngs."
DO you have much trouble with team
stersY" we asked
"Oh, some ot them can act pretty
mean, retending not to hear when /
blow my whistle, but IL they want any
jaw with me they must do it all them
selves"
Just then a team pulled across the
track ahead OF US and blocked the way.
The sullen driver appeared ready for the
usual interchange Of compliments, but
our man grinned a merry grin and
cried:
Room enough for everybody II we
take little time. and the sullen chap
hurried up his team.
That's the way 1t works every time"
said the driver, as h turned g broad
smile 20 rs. "Molasses catches more
fies than vinegar. though some folks
don'l seem to know f..
How are you, Biily?" Chis 10 one OF
the ugliest-looking draymen that we ever
saw. And the craymsn, recognizing the
car driver. nodded in re urn his ugly
mug softening into somethin: like anna
bility, under the melting influence OF the
good-natured mans smile.
Y u know some of these fellows?"
We sug yested.
Lots OF EN-, for I've been on this line
four years; and they know me. Never
mad any fuss worth speaking OF. But
there Is one OF our men, a era bed driver,
wh1 is in a row from II, rniUg until
night Seems a teamster can't see him
without wanting to lick him. He is
howled ct and sworn at along the entire
route, and / know il must max his lie
a burden. But he Is mostly to blame for
1t himself.
II is always iretting and inding fault
and naturally folks on the stree don't
like him. He makes all his passengers
cross and blue, too, on account OF the
rows he gets into.
IL tell you, boss, the good-natured way
Is the easiest way TO get through this
life"
And our street car philosopher has the
Right OF iE.-lTexas Si,tings.
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Too Many Enterprising Visitors.

There was one angry woman IN
Macon. Before she finished breakfast
q sewing machine agent called on her.
Thirty minutes later female book
agent called and talked two hours. In
the afternoon a rat trap agent called,
and just at nightfall an advertising
agent threw int9 the front door q cake
Of soap wrapped in bundle Oh ''-otso
That woman,s husband became vSiS
unhappy w,,en he reached hoIne az nisHs.
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EBENSBURG, PA. FRIDAY

he will dash and pound the trap against
that in efforts TO break IL. and there are
Instances known where Bruin has br, ken
traps in that way. Well authenticated
cases OF bears gnswing or tearing their
legs out of traps are known. and one OF
the longest bear chases / ever heard OF
WAS chase after q three-legged bear,
one OF It's legs having been left In
tran"
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4 Put-up Job.

Old Jew: "Now. Isaac. nay leetle.
dear poy. you preaks de glass an runs
away mighty quick. Den holsrs
GLASS pudding an gets pig job
Young Jew: But vat VII getr
Old jew: your Wy you est der -
esNie4. "-lPuek.
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The CITY IN BRIEF.

The vfncsnnes Folding bed Company. with a
capital stock Of 10000. has been Incorporated.
j. w. Fisher, the Virginia avenue saloon
keeper. has been fined $40 and costs for desc
Grating the Sabbath. He gave notice of appeal.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Machold and Lille Kumbach.
The County Commissioners spent yesterday in
spectlng the poor-farm west of the city, and will
make, to-day, formal report of what they OBJ
served.
Charles Cook. single man residing at No.
ZlS chesapeake street, a brakeman on the Kan
kakee line, fell under the cars rear louisville,
night before last, and was instantly killed. His
BODY was brought here yesterday.
The Saturday Herald Of Feb will contain q
IfhoRraph OF the new union station, now under
going construction, together with engravings of
the pubic buildings and business enterprises of
this city It promises to be very fine illus
trated edition.
Mrs Ida Garrett and William Kelly arrested
last Saturday on a criminal charge, had their
hearing before Mayor Denny yesterday. The
only "ltness who appeared against the woman
was ner husband, and as there was no evidence
against Kelly, the two were discharged.
Ollie Seibert the missing girl, who was sup
posed to have been kidnapped by her mother on
Sunday night, was found by tho police yester-
Cay at the residence OF an aunt in the southern
part of the city. She states that she left home
OF her own accord.
The grand jury will adjourn on Thursday,
and 1t Is said they have several important in
dictments to return. They have attempted to
make very thorough investigation of the
Conaughton murder and an indictment is ex-
pected oy those who were before the jury as
witnessed
None OF the persons injured in the /. & v.
railroad wreck, Monday evening. were seriously
hurt, and with the exception of Mr.. G. 7. Allen,
all have returned to their homes. Mr.. Allen is
stlll at the Illinois House. The wreck was the
result of broken rail, and there is no blame of
the trainmen for its occurrence.
The Snow-storm Mining and Milling Com
| PAW. OF Durango, Col, held its annual meeting
yesterday and elected the following directors,
w, G DePauw being the largest stockhoder:
Lew Ritter, indianapolis; Nelson Bradley, Green
held; Alex. @. Ayres Indianapolis; e. E. Pr att.
Chicago; w. II. Craft, Indianapolis G. w. De-
Paw, New Albany; Charles W. Brouse, Indian
apoiis; III. j. McCloskey, Durango Col
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For the benefit OF the orchestral fund of the
National Music Teachers Association convention
to be held here next summer, the Ladies' Matinee
Musicale will give concert on next Friday
evening, at Plymouth Church, assisted by Dr.
Louis Mas, the celebrated pianist from Boston,
Mr. H. C. Levi and Mr. w. T. Barnes of this
city. The programme includes piano solos per-
formed by DR.. Mas. among which are Liszt's
Rhapsody" No. 10, Beethoven's "Andante" in F,
Schubert's "Marche Militaire" and Gottschalk's
"Tremolo Etude." Mrs. U. j. Hammond will
take the solos in the two opening semi-choruses,
1.-THE Lord Is My Shepherd" and Charity" the
former the composition of Schubert and the
latter of Rossini. Mrs. lowering. Mr.. Levi and
Mr. Barnes will sing Nicolaos trio "ripreio
Padre" and Mr.. Levi Abt's My Heart Is Thy
Home"
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no more than 5000 could be charged; from .
point east of Ogden more than e150, and from
point east of Omaha no more than 500.
Mr.. Aldrich repeated his question in another
form.
Mr.. Harris replied that It would depend en-
tirely on whether the shipment of the Boston 81
Albany railroad was continuous and through
shipment. San Francisco to Boston.
Mr.. Aldrich-Suppose it to be through ship
nent
MIR. HArris-Then the short-haul provision
would only affect that shipment, as l have al
ready explained. 1t would fall within the last
and lowest through rate made by that car, and
for short haul on that road there could not be
more charged.
Mr.. Aldrich-And the aggregate compensation
received by the Boston & Albany road, in the one
case, would be no measure. and no criterion of
the actual sum to be charged in the other case
Mr.. Harris gave response.
Mr.. Salisbury spoke in favor Of the bill.
MIR. Cullom repeated the notice heretofore
given by him. that he would ask the Senate to
remain in session to morrow till the bill was dis
posed of.
After an executive session, the Senate ai-
journed.
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National Bank Elections.

the meeting of the directors of the Meridian
National Bank held yesterday afternoon
They declared a dividend of per cent. and in
creased the surplus fund $40, 900. The election
of officers resulted 10 the choice of W. P. Gallup,
president; D. A. Richardson, vice president, aud
A. F. Kopp, cashier. The directors are David
Macy, James E. Robertson, Charles Mayer,
Charles Scholl D. A. Richardson. F. Fahnley.
r. S. Foster. A. Kopp. and VIM. P. Gallup.
The directors of the Merchar ts' Ma tonai Bank
are James r. Faiey. Chris F. Balls, Paul H.
krauss, O. n Frenzel and j. p. Frenzel. The
last-named continues as president. with Otto as
cashier. The usual semi-annual dividend OF
per cent was declared.
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The Oldest Inhabitant.

10 the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
have recently seen the names Of several diff
ferent persons who claim for themselves, OF
through their friends to be the oldest native res
idenr of the State of Indiana. but none of those
that have come under my notice antedate the
birth of Mrs Matilda Reegs. relict of the late
James Beggs. of Chsrlestown township, Clark
county She was the daughter of James Drum
mond Of said township. and was horn June s.
1903 and was married to Mr.. Beges in January
1873 She has continuously resided at the same
spot for sixtyfour years-thar she was taken tc
by Mr.. Beegs at tine time of their marriage
never having resided outside of Charlestowr
township Mr.. Beggs died in January. 1878, ht
and his wife having lived together ffty-fiyt
years JAMES WHEATLY.
HINDSBoRo JAMS.
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The Lace and Needle-Work Exhibit.

The lace and needle work exhibition at the
Bates House was we'll patronized yesterday
Several new pieces were received, among them a
piece OF Chinese embroidery upon red crepe, and
banneret of the same workmanship upon
maroon satin handsome Persian EN- broidered
frontal was received from Mrs. Lew w allace and
pair Of fine window curtains from Mrs. Benja-
min Harrison. The exhibition will be continued
until Thursday night being open each evening
until then.
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Wants of Purdue University,

Purdue University wants a piggery. It also
wants some new buildings and stock, and the
whole will cost 500, 0u0. That's what the BIZ
ennial report Of John s. Ratliff, president of the
board OF trustees. says. and that amount, to-
gather with the annual appropriation, will make
1000 1t already costs about $50 600 year to
keep up the institution, but the improvements
seem to be needed as it progresses in it's work.
There were 3l5 pupils in attendance last year.